#irtf — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #irtf, aggregated by home.social.
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#IETF126: Was KI für die Standardisierung bedeutet | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/IETF-126-Was-KI-fuer-die-Standardisierung-bedeutet-11387207.html #IETF @ietf #IRTF @irtf #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
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#SeriousSolarpunk - that's my proposed sociotechnical method to design and implement a sustainable internet, grid and place together.
It was a response to #IRTF SUSTAIN RG asking me to give a keynote. (Thanks, guys!)
When you start by collaborating with a place, and build ingenious infrastructure with them, reflecting on governance and ownership, you can design for longevity, liveability for place and infrastructure combined.
More inc. downloadable worksheet here:
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📄 I have published my summary of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) activities at #IETF126 in Vienna.
The report covers the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), the IRTF Open Meeting, and all 14 Research Groups—from AI networking and Internet architecture to routing, transport, privacy, sustainability, quantum networking, and more.
One aspect that makes the IRTF particularly valuable is its research model. Rather than organizing around individual publications, the IRTF is organized around long-lived research communities where researchers, engineers, implementers, operators, and standards experts collaboratively explore fundamental Internet challenges over many years.
At a time when AI is transforming how research is written, reviewed, and disseminated, sustained technical dialogue and open collaboration are becoming increasingly important.
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Mind blowing numbers about Finnish datacentre build out from an IRTF Sustainability and the internet workshop
As I mentioned before, I was at an IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) workshop last week in Passau. It was my first time, and my mind is still buzzing from all the things I learned. This is one thing want to be able to come back to a presentation from Jukka Manner, a professor at Aalto University. I’m uploading it here with a few notes, because WOW.
Off we go.
You can follow the link to download the PDF of the deck, but here are the ones to look at:
- slide 9 – Google as half of finished data center capacity in Finland, all by itself.
- slide 12 – The planned expansion, before 2030 is about 7.7 GW. The entire Finnish grid is only 10 gigawatts in capacity. This also expansion is also 27x increase between now and 2030 . That is the biggest change I’ve seen so far in any country.
- slide 16 – Basically all of the demand growth would have to go to data centers for this build out to be possible.
- slide 17 – how the hyperscalers responded when they were asked to be flexible to help share grid capacity
I think pulling out slide 17 is worth while, because it’s both eye-opening, but also worth discussing.
How hyperscalers responded when asked about data centre flexibility
You can see the quote that Jukka mentioned when in a workshop with someone from a hyperscaler about integrating datacentres into the grid in Finland:
Q: ”Can you drop your consumption if the national power grid has challenges delivering enough electricity ?
A: “We don’t have the incentive to do that”Ouch.
To be fair, pretty much all to mind flexibility involves someone being paid for the flexibility, either in the form of compensation for changing your demand, or in the form of being allowed on the grid to make money, and this being the price of getting onto the grid now.
But this presentation is going to stick in my mind for a while, because before I saw this I had some idea of the changes taking place in Finland, and the deck points to loads of interesting ideas beyond thse figures, like there being an actual open data portal with the location and date of every planned project in Finland, being a thing that is out there, and the sky not falling.
Heres the screenshot:
And here’s the link to the live website where this came from, and this is the link directly to the Microsoft Power BI view
It’s mind-blowing that this is not something that we have across Europe, because this is precisely the info the industry is fighting hard to have not disclosed in laws that would otherwise require it.
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As we celebrate Earth Day 2026, what is the technical community—the people who actually build and operate the Internet—doing about climate concerns and environmental sustainability?
Today I wrote on the @internetsociety blog about two groups working within the Internet Engineering Task Force ( #IETF ) and the Internet Research Task Force ( #IRTF ) to look at some of these topics...
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04/climate-and-environmental-sustainability-within-the-ietf-and-irtf/#EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #Climate #ClimateChange #Sustainability
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Karolina Skrivankova understands how #IoT really should work. The recordings of the #IRTF presentation will be available at <https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/session/t2trg/>, but the slide highlight works standalone.
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Kélé sous le coup d’une nouvelle OQTF
La préfecture tente de passer en force. Kélé sous le coup d’une nouvelle #OQTF + #IRTF de 2 ans + pointage hebdomadaire à la PAF! Malgré ses 11 ans de présence en France, son intégration exemplaire, l’annulation de son OQTF du 11 mars 2024 par le tribunal administratif le 12 décembre 2024 et l’avis favorable à sa #régularisation de la commission au titre de séjour en février 2025 !
✒️ Par Soutenez Kélé | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/soutenez-kele/blog/060525/kele-sous-le-coup-dune-nouvelle-oqtf-1?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapartblogs
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Reminder – nominations for the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2025 are due at the end of this week, on 15 November 2024. Please consider nominating your best applied networking research papers – self nominations are strongly encouraged!
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OK, start of the proposed research group (like a working group but for the #IRTF) RASP https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/121/materials/agenda-121-rasprg-04
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Reminder – nominations for the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2025 are due in just under three week, on 15 November 2024. Please consider nominating your best applied networking research papers.
#IETF #IETF121 #IRTF https://discuss.systems/@irtf/113228016387876374
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Getting ready for the #IETF LAKE hackathon combined with the #IRTF T2TRG meeting at INRIA Paris <https://parishackathon.lakewg.org/> on the next two days.
We will interop #EDHOC implementations (eg. using @RIOT_OS and its #RustLang companion RIOT-rs), test it directly on #CoAP, and discuss current engineering and research questions on how #IoT devices can communicate in a secure and privacy preserving manner while fitting on the tiniest of devices. -
For one summary of these three categories aimed at advancing work on #QuantumInternet within the Internet engineering community (#IETF and #IRTF), see
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wooohoo, just released python bindings for #liboprf: https://github.com/stef/liboprf/tree/master/python
#IRTF/#CFRG testvectors are compliant.
comes with threshold support!
DKG support todo.
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woohooo good news! thanks to the awesome @joostvb and some help from @NGIZero libopaque is about to be included in #debian (and all dowstream distros, like #ubuntu, #raspian, #devuan and #kali https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libopaque_0.99.2-1.html
it only has to pass the ftp NEW queue manual review.
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updated #libopaque to conform to the testvectors of latest version of the #IRTF/#CFRG draft
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The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is organising a Workshop on Barriers to Internet Access of Services (BIAS) that may be of interest – position papers are due 24th November
"The Internet as part of the critical infrastructure affects many aspects of our society significantly, although it impacts different parts of society differently. The Internet is an important tool to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and to globally support human rights. Consequently, the lack of meaningful access to digital infrastructure and services is also a form of disenfranchisement.
Solely having Internet access is not enough. At the same time as we work to connect the next billion people and reduce the digital divide, it is also important to understand persistent and novel inequalities in the digital age when accessing content and services. There are more and more barriers to meaningful access to the services and applications that run on the Internet. Even if Internet connectivity is available, information and services access may remain challenged and unequal.
This workshop aims to collect reports about barriers to access content and services on the Internet, e.g based on filtering, blocking as well as due to general inequality of technological capabilities, like device or protocol limitations. The workshop aims to help the Internet community get a better understanding of how the Internet functions in different parts of the world and which technology or techniques need to be used to gain access to content. Further this workshop aims to build an understanding of what “being connected” to the Internet means: What is the Internet to users? What is needed to be meaningfully connected? What are the minimum requirements in order to be able to access certain parts of the content and services provided over the Internet?"
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interesting review of the current OPAQUE draft of the IRTF/CFRG:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/Bwo7jab6ifEG7a9KiDkXhayFgkk/
it rattles on some of the security promises of the original protocol that are not quite proven for the current draft. #crypto #opaque #irtf #cfrg
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Weekend Reads:
* Anonymizing satellite usage https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14879
* Subsea cabling https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet/
* IPv6 hitlists at scale https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15057
* IRTF on Generating transient IDs https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9415
* Anonymous Sudan interview https://intelcocktail.com/anonymous-sudan-interview/#Starlink #Satellite #SubseaCable #IPv6 #IRTF #AnonymousSudan #KillNet
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Secondary School #Students observe #Venus with NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (#IRTF): https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10010 - "we describe the experience of secondary school students attending professional observations of Venus at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) and, in a second observing run, conducting the observations by themselves."